The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-04-09
FRIpAY. MArch %. 1887.

Present same rs yesterday.
The record of yesterdays sessions was
read and approved.
Supervisor Griffin, chairman committee on
public buildings, submitted the following re.
port, which was adopted:
Mr. Chairman, &c: Your committee on
public buildings would respectfully report
that they have had placed an additional
$500 isurance on the county asylum, max
ing in the aggregate $50, 900, as authorized
by the Board last December, and we recon-
mend that the clerk be directed to draw an
order on the county treasurer in favor of
the Washington Fire and Marine Insurance
Co. for S75 90, the premium on same.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
A. 7. GRIFFIN, Chairman.
Supervisor Lukins, chairman committee
on roads and bridges submitted the follow.
ing report
Mr.. Chairman, &C.: Your committee on
roads and bridges would respectfully report
that they have examined the matter con.
tanned in the petition from commi, Sieners OF
highways of the towns of Mission and North.
vile presented before them, and recommend
the granting of said petition, rs your com.
mittee are Of the opinion that II comes wholly
within the law, and that said commissioners
have complied with the law, and are entitled
to the amount asked for, namely, five thou
sand dollars. when said bridge and ap.
proaches are built and completed, being one.
half the estimated cost We would also beg
leave to recommend that a committee of Two
CIV members of this Board be appointed by
the chairman TO be present at the letting OF
the contract for the construction of said
bridge and approaches: also TO Inspect said
work when completed, and with the fling OF
their approval Of said work with the county
clerk, he be authorized to issue his order on
the c"unty treasurer, payable to treasurer OF
the commissioners of highways Of the towns
of Mission and Worthwhile for above amount,
or as much thereof NJ is required TO pay the
one half of the Cost of said work out of the tax
levy of 1887.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
". II. LuKISs, Chairman.
Said report was adopted by the following
vote:
Ayes-Burkart, Butterfeld, Carlin, Doyle,
Dwyer, Fades, Farnsworth Fischer, Gala.
CHER. Gransden, Green, Gum, Griffin, Hill
lenbrand, Hollecker, Jennings, LaCf, Lauder
Luklns, Maerhofer, Mcintyre, McLauchlan,
Nicholson, Norton, O'Loughin, Reed, Steven
man-3l.
Noes-Bowen, Brennan, Dinsmore, Ores.
ser, Hickok. Madden, Phillips, Rowe-S.
The chairman appointed Supervisors Lu-
kins and Green As special committee to act
for the county in the matter of the appro
priation just past.
Supervisor McLauchlan presented the re-
port of the assistant mine inspector, which
was read and ordered spread upon the re
cords, as follows:
Board Of Supervisors, &c: Ii is with con.
siderable satisfaction | submit my second
annual report to the gentlemen of the Board.
There have been less fatal accidents and more
general improvements in and around the
mines this year than ever before In the same
space of time. Though the summer of 1886
was the dullest the county has seen for
years, yet several new fans were built, and
some more are ordered, and new machinery
to run the same, There is little. doubt that
this satisfactory state of affairs is owing TO
the vigilance with which the inspectors have
performed their duties. Operators, bosses
and their subordinates are quick TO recIify
any arrangements in the system OF ventila
ton when they know the inspector may come
any day TO measure their air. In some in
stances we find board off the air shaft,
thereby allowing the air 10 return 10 the
surface without going into the working part
of the mine al all. This was the case in two
Of the largest shafts in the La Sale district,
and not until had measured their air and
found it had run down to half is usual vol
ume was the defect discovered. Cases ike
tue foregoing, and they are numerous anu